Vatican Loggia, Twelve Hand-colored Plates by Giovanni Ottaviani (1735-1808)

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Vatican Loggia, Twelve Hand-colored Plates by Giovanni Ottaviani (1735-1808) after drawings by Ludovico Teseo (1731-1782) after frescoes by Raphael (1483-1520) [from] Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, 1772-1777.
Twelve copper-plate engravings, numbered I through XII, depicting twelve ceiling panels from the Vatican Loggia, each carefully and completely hand-colored in very good contemporary gouache, the group still bound together, with front marbled endpaper present, blank endleaves only at the end, the plates interleaved with blanks, contents generally good, with slight loss of surface on some pages, marginal tears, finger marks, old folds, 25 1/2 x 29 1/4 in.
Estimate $400-600


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